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Amazon vet Dorothy Li joins trucking startup Convoy as CTO, says company is at ‘inflection point’

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billion valuation in November 2019. Last August the company hired former Expedia CEO Mark Okerstrom as president and COO. Goodale was previously CTO; he will transition to a new role overseeing the company’s carrier marketplace. ” Convoy employs around 1,000 people and plans to hire throughout the year.

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Uncommon Thinkers: MagniX CTO Riona Armesmith geeks out over electric aviation

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The International Energy Agency says aviation accounts for a relatively small share of global energy-related carbon emissions — 2% in 2022 — but those emissions are rising more rapidly than they are in other transportation sectors, making aviation “one of the most challenging sectors to decarbonize.”

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Tech Moves: Convoy names general counsel; startup founders land new gigs after shutdowns

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billion in November 2019. Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. Founded in 2019 by former Google SVP of Ads Sridhar Ramaswamy and former VP of YouTube monetization Vivek Raghunathan , Neeva is an ad-free, private search engine. based Puppet since January 2019.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. He joined Publicis Media in 2019. February 2022. Kamal Goel Web Werks. January 2022.

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Meet the unicorns: A look at the 15 Seattle-area startups that boast valuations over $1 billion

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Hint: They are in the real estate, consumer internet, transportation, clean tech and gaming categories). 2019 : Convoy raises $400M at $2.7B Industry : Sales contract management software. Industry : Hiring and recruiting . Founded : 2019. Enterprise software still rules the roost in the region. Founded : 2016.

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Tech Moves: Amazon’s director of Alexa Trust; BECU adds CIO; Lockstep, Fabric exit stealth mode

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Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. Founded in 2019, the platform provides an accounting-specific inbox for accounts receivable and accounts payable teams. Amazon Photo). Read more about Fabric and its $9.5

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Tech Moves: B.C. startup Thinkific adds CMO from Hootsuite; Amplero founder departs Zulily

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He is the former CTO of Canadian startups Checkfront and Foodee. After a brief stint at Zillow Group, he joined Zulily in 2019. San Francisco cloud computing company Netlify hired Dana Lawson as senior vice president of engineering and Akram Hassan as vice president of product. Chris McGuire. Thinkific Photo). Tony Small.

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